Was messing around in photobucket and don't think I ever posted up some of the mounts from my Argentina trip last summer. Won't bother everybody with the hunt pics since the mounts are done and you can see the finished product. I ended up doing a a hunt each for the doves, then pigeons, and on the last day Perdiz. Wanted to do an upland strap with great representations for each species.From left to right: spotted nothura, red winged tinamou, spot-winged pigeon, picazurro pigeon, eared dove.

This is the teal and shoveler strap, ended up with 15 species so had to section them up in appropriate groupings.From left to right: Brazilian teal hen, Brazilian teal drake, speckled teal drake, ringed teal drake, ringed teal hen, then red shoveler drake on bottom left, and silver teal drake on bottom right. One of my favorites because the amount of color on these birds is just crazy!

There is a third and final that has the remaining species like rosy billed pochard pair, white faced and fulvous whistling ducks, giant wood rail, etc but haven't got a good picture yet since the wood rail was just recently completed. Will add to this post once its all set.

Thanks guys, I wish there was some way to show how much goes into those pigeons and doves from shooting them to a finished mount. Wasn't as careful with my first born as those things kidding of course!Pete: your right man, no argument there. Something about lines and patterns and wanting them as sharp as possible that definitely leans toward OCD! Doug: same way as birds from any other country, prep them at the location, declare upon arrival, have my USFWS forms filled out before hand and I'm a USDA approved facility. I think many people see it as a daunting task because there is certainly more effort that goes into traveling abroad than going to Maine, Alaska, etc and just flying back with birds but as long as all the paper work is done prior to and everything is followed legally, then the law is on your side.Brian: I think you've seen the ipad pic of the other on the Facebook page? I gotta get that darn wood rail on there and get some good pics. Then it's hopefully time to start putting some of the New Zealand stuff together. Going to go back down to Argentina again next summer except a little later to get into different stuff since we knocked so much off the list on our trip. Those masked ducks and argentine Ruddys are calling me!

No doubt pin feathered messes we piled those dudes up in the area we hunted, the particular morning of this pic we had our fill of brazilians and packed up early to chase giant wood rail. They said I was the first to actually do that, not sure if that is a proud or embarrassing moment but sure was happy to do it.

Here is the bird prior to be finished out, dr pepper can for size reference. Giant wood rail is not a misnomer for sure

Very cool trip and beautiful birds. I know we look at those birds in awe because we don't have them here in the states. But, I was wondering if those who live and hunt down there envy what we have? I'm sure it goes both ways.

I am also under redneck express your style strikes familer and for sum reason I remember a video you may have did of jumping a duh off a river/ Creek that was black and white that kind of had a cross on its head / and a lot of your out of country birds are done in a similar form that you have shown pictures of. Not a negative thing actually it has stuck in my head

Only thing I can figure is...are you talking about the torrent duck hunt in Peru? That video really showed the raging rapids those little birds live in. Just crazy, and almost as equally crazy to hunt them!

For you, no. You have to print and fill out the 3-177 form from the USFWS and make the declaration on the slip they hand you on the plane when returning. That and of course the hunting license and export permit from the country your hunting In which varies quite a bit. For example, directly through the government in New Zealand I got the export permit for 40 New Zealand dollars and the license was I think 76USD after my bank converted currency. Places like Scotland have no hunting licenses but permits through the local police departments for firearm use which constitutes a hunting license. I have the import permit as an approved facility with the USDA. This is expensive and requires quarterly inspections. Like any government based entity it seems like a mountain to climb but best thing is to have the help of someone who has done a good number of trips in different places and it's really quite easy. My personal view is I go with every shred of paperwork that I may need for any possible situation and I've needed less than 10% of it on any given trip but all they have to do is ask for something in particular that you don't have and big problems arise quickly.

AAR wrote:Only thing I can figure is...are you talking about the torrent duck hunt in Peru? That video really showed the raging rapids those little birds live in. Just crazy, and almost as equally crazy to hunt them!